Rejects!

I've been busily trying to come up with card designs for the Stamp-A-Stack in May, and my creativity appears to have abandoned me! Since I can't show you the cards I'm happy with (it would spoil the surprise!) I can at least share with you the rejects:

This one is Not-Quite-Navy, Pumpkin Pie, and Old Olive. I used the Level 2 Hostess set Infinite Goodness and Happy Everything. Why is it a reject? It makes me nauseous! The D.I.Y designer series paper makes my eyes swirl, and the olive just sticks out like a sort thumb.. and the colours.. the colours! Bleh! What I like about this card is the D.I.Y designer paper - perhaps in different colours, and the cut-out flower which I coloured in just with a wet paint brush by making the ink bleed.

This one is pretty, but to do it right, we'd never have time to make it during a stamp-a-stack - nevermind making it twice. Whisper White paper and Regal Rose ink. The flowers were coloured with a watercolour brush and regal rose ink. I put some glitter in the centre of the flowers (love the sparkle! - I refuse to say Bling) and the sentiment is from Holidays and Wishes in Rose Red.